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Definition of Kentish
1. Noun. One of the major dialects of Old English.
2. Noun. A dialect of Middle English.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kentish
Literary usage of Kentish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"By Miss NINA LAYARD. 7. Report on the Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom.
See Reports, p. 712 8. On Traces of Early Kentish Mv/rations. ..."
2. Transactions by Cambridge Philological Society (1899)
"Kentish. This investigation will be restricted chiefly to Charte: 4—8, and
33—44 (in the Oldest English Texts) the Kentis._ origin of which is practically ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1849)
"Kentish KNOCK. — Off the South end of the Kentish Knock а large Nun Buoy, colored
Red, marked KK in large Black Letters, and surmounted by a Staff and Globe ..."
4. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1882)
"THE rood-screens remaining in Kentish churches are not enriched with pictorial
... Nevertheless, in thirty or more of our Kentish churches ancient ..."
5. The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century by Arthur Edgar Wroth, ., Warwick William Wroth (1896)
"By about 1776 the village of Kentish Town had become a somewhat populous place,
... 298 Kentish Town Road) and a police station have been built on the ..."
6. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1884)
"1642 THE Kentish PETITION. self ready to do so, if only Parliament would acknowledge
its errors. ' If Charles thought it expedient to abandon for a time his ..."
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